Environmental Stewardship

Responsibilities:

• Operational delivery of all Environmental Stewardship programs in the field.
• Region-wide species and ecosystem science and management.
• Contribution to provincial biodiversity planning and delivery.
• Management of the Protected Areas and lands.
• Provision of environmental stewardship and biodiversity standards and guidelines to industry, governments and the public in the region.
• Results-based delivery of performance guidelines for forestry, agriculture, urban development, and other sectors.
• Inventory, management, allocation and monitoring of harvested species.
• Habitat restoration and enhancement.
• Management of public and commercial outdoor recreation and use in the provincial parks system.
• Management of park service contracts.
• Delivery of permitting and tenuring for parks, protected areas and fish and wildlife as defined under the new approach with centralized administration implemented over the next two years.
• Development and implementation of regional partnerships to deliver biodiversity, protected area and fish and wildlife use objectives.
• Support of ministry systems including compliance and effectiveness monitoring and reporting.